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A satellite view of Alderney, the northernmost of the inhabited Channel Islands. Credit: Copernicus Sentinel-2, ESA via Wikimedia Commons.

UK government reviewing number of deaths at Nazi camps on British soil

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The British government announced a landmark review last week into Nazi camp deaths on the island of Alderney, which the Germans occupied between 1940 and 1945. Officially, 389 marked graves have been found, but some estimates...

Longtime Jewish journalist suggests ‘BBC’ may have exposed her to cancer

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Dame Esther Rantzen, a prominent Jewish British journalist, recently told the Daily Mirror that her cancer diagnosis may be connected to her time working for the BBC. The 83-year-old spent a significant part of her early career in the former...
Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) take part in a military show in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the group's founding, Dec. 11, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

German minister defies Berlin on Israel’s terror listing of Palestinian NGOs

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Germany's Federal Ministry of the Interior believes Israel provided sufficient evidence to justify its listing of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations as terrorist entities, Der Spiegel reported. Interior Minister Nancy Faeser's position reportedly has put her at odds...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in London, March 24, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon (GPO).

UK refuses to release documents on aid to Palestinians

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The U.K. Foreign Office has declined to disclose how British development aid to the Palestinian Authority is audited, claiming it would "not be in the public interest" to do so, Jewish groups claimed on...
A bar mitzvah boy reads his Torah portion at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Photo by Peter van der Sluijs via Wikimedia Commons.

Activist seeks to burn Torah outside Israeli embassy in Sweden

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Swedish police have received a request to burn a Torah book in front of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm, officials said Wednesday. The request follows the burning of a Koran outside the main mosque in...
Hundreds gather at a March 8, 2018 ceremony at Warszawa Gdanska Railway Station to commemorate the antisemitic campaign and purge in Poland in 1968. Photo by Darek Warczakoski/Shutterstock. | Darek Warczakoski/Shutterstock

Project launched in London on 1968 Polish expulsion of Jews

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“Forgotten Exodus,” a multimedia initiative to collect and share testimonies of Jewish Poles forced to flee the country in 1968, launched last month in London. This history is generally overlooked, according to Daniel Schatz, a visiting researcher...